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Trouble is that people cherry pick verses of the Bible that suit their theological position and ignore verses that contradict it. Genuine Christian converts will forsake the works of the flesh. That is a given. Those who hold on to works of the flesh show that they may profess Christianity...

What do you think about Job? He went through poverty and sickness with three friends who accused him of sin because of it. I wonder if one of his friends was an ancestor of Kenny Copeland?

It is not having material wealth that is the issue. It is teaching that God automatically gives wealth to those who demand it by naming and claiming, and teaching that people who live in poverty are faithless and therefore are not pleasing God. If I am left alone, and reach the end of my life...

Doctrine involving material prosperity is false. What God does promise is spiritual prosperity. If we have Jesus, we have everything. The quest for material prosperity leads to coveting and selfishness. If a person has a big bank balance when he dies, the money usually goes under the...

That must mean that God hates you and me, because we both sin at times, even without knowing it. Sin is transgression of the Law, and none of us can perfectly observe the law. But isn't that a contradiction? God can love us and hate us at the same time? What about the Scripture: "Christ...

Lydia, who ran a church in her home in Philippi. Aquila's wife Priscilla, who shared teaching to Apollos to show him the way of Christ. Philip's daughters who prophesied - given that the definition of prophecy included preaching. So his daughters were preachers. It is interesting that Paul...

Moses said that an accusation needed two or three witnesses to establish it, and then if there is punishment required, it was the responsibility of those witness to exact it on the offender. This is why when the crowd brought the woman caught in adultery to Jesus, He called upon the witnesses...

We on this forum are a cross-section of the body of Christ, therefore anyone who shows fruit that shows a ministry of teaching, will be approved of the majority of forum members. One of the definitions of prophecy is what we contribute in our comments on this forum. Therefore, according to...

Yes. The "sinner" in that verse describes the unconverted person who is not born again of the Spirit of God.

He thinks that female Bible teachers are satanic counterfeits.

While you are having a go at whom you consider false teachers, why not include these ones? Peter - He denied the Lord, and had a foot shaped mouth. John - He was a bit effeminate and had the habit of leaning on people's breasts. Simon the Zealot - He was too involved in local politics, and...

It sounds like anyone who doesn't subscribe to your personal theology is a satanic counterfeit. Sounds like popery and priestcraft to me.

Of course there are folk who believe that anyone who doesn't agree with them are nut jobs. It's the old attitude that you and I are only two perfect Christians in the world, and I'm not too sure about you!

When he remained in his prophetic calling he was moving in the will of God for him. It was when he moved out of his prophetic calling and tried to be a Bible teacher, which God did not commission him for, that when he offered "strange fire". For some to describe the Charismatic movement as...

One of the signs is that a ministry bears good fruit, and another is that it is recognised by those in the body of Christ who are receiving the ministry. Being approved of God will mean that one is approved of genuine believers in the body of Christ, and that the fruit of the ministry upholds...

There were no differences with the type of fire that was offered by these men. It was because they were not divinely appointed to make offerings to the Lord. They had the mistaken impression that because they were the sons of Aaron that they had the right to make the offerings. But they were...

Leviticus 10:1. The false fire was offered by the sons of Aaron, and they died.

The actual Scripture reads as follows: "9 But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate: 10 and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. Your comment is not what the Scripture actually says. It does not say that the brother of low...

I looked the verse up in several prominent versions of Scripture and it definitely says Aramaic. The NAB says "Hebrew Dialect" but the footnote says "Aramaic Hebrew". However, I can't see that this is any kind of issue.

Common sense would tell us (unless some Christians leave their brains turned off when they open the Bible), that because there is one God, one faith, one baptism, and one body of Christ, if Paul is writing to one section of the body of Christ, namely the Philippians, then his letter would...